Notre Dame has only played current SEC opponents 44 times, a stark contrast to its history with the Big Ten (376 games), Atlantic Coast (193), Pacific 12 (147).

There might not be much recent history between Notre Dame and the SEC, but Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick is making a point to rectify that. Notre Dame has a four-game series with Texas scheduled for 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020, but Swarbrick told ESPN’s Brett McMurphy that he’d be willing to reschedule with the Longhorns to make room for Georgia.

W/Georgia games, Notre Dame-Texas in ’17 & ’19 in jeopardy. “Hopeful we will be able to reschedule,” Jack Swarbrick told @ESPN

Notre Dame-Georgia makes sense from a recruitment standpoint, too. The Irish have plucked stalwarts like Stephon Tuitt and T.J. Jones from the Peach State in the past and look to expand their presence in SEC territory.

“We're looking for matchups down the road that geographically make sense to us,” Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said in April, when a potential Georgia series was first discussed. “That Atlanta area, that SEC area — and Atlanta is a big area. We've hit Dallas, obviously, we know that's a great area for us. We're going to keep looking for geographical areas that make sense for us. We gotta look at geographical areas that we're recruiting, Atlanta's one of the areas that we gotta keep getting in.”